ML17254A194
| ML17254A194 | |
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| Site: | Ginna  |
| Issue date: | 01/31/1985 |
| From: | Zwolinski J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8502070129 | |
| Download: ML17254A194 (8) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY -COMMISSION 4
ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-244 I
NOTICE'OF'CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY*OPERATING.LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION AND OPPORTUNIY FORHEARING
'he U.S.
Nuc1ear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering
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issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-18, issued to Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, for operation of the R.
E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant (Ginna}.
The amendment would improve the efficiency of refueling outage work
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and improve personnel safety.
The change would allow use of a temporary closure.pl,ate in place of-the equipment hatch or. equipment door during refueling.
At the time the plant was constructed, the magnitude and types of outage maintenance activities inside containment were not anticipated.
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As a result, a need exists during outages for many temporary servic'es inside containment to support plant modifications, inservice inspections, equipment maintenance and overhauls and significant steam generator work.
The services required..include electrical cables for communication, closed circuit TV, steam generator tube eddy current testing, steam. generator sleeving and power for additional welding machines..
Fluid lines are required for high pressure water lancing of the steam. generators and for air supplies.
Current practice has been to run'he temporary. services through 'an open personnel door within the equipment door or to attach a special closure to the personnel door with appropriately sealed penetrations.
The first l
option dictates that refueling and some maintenance work not be performed concurrently which lengthens the outage and increases the cost to the company.
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The second option reduces the contai.nment.egress paths to one, an undesirable. situation for personnel safety.
The preferre'd'ethod for lgI
. decreasing outage time and:.increasing personnel safety is to use a specially fabricated closure plate in place of the equipment door...'The closure plate
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I would have sealed penetrations for the temporarv services and a personnel door that would provide emergency egress.
Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will
. have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended' (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.
C The Commission has made a proposed determination that the amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration.
Under the Commission s
. regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences, of an accident previously evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or. different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3)'nvolve a significant reduction in'a 'margin of safety.
Based on the above information, we conclude that the safety function of the component being replaced during refueling'operations would be fulfilled by the proposed temporary closure plate..
The design of the temporary closure plate assures that releases'of radioactive material within the containment will be restricted from leaking to the environment.'Therefore, the r
proposed'hange would not:
(1). involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or (2) 'create
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the possibility of a new.or different kind of accident from any accident previous1y evaluated; or'(3).involve a significant.reduction:in a margin I
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I of safety.
Accordingly, the.staff proposes to determine t'hat the proposed I
change does not involve a Cignificant hazards consideration.
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The Commission is seeking public comments on this'proposed determination.
~ 0 Any comments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination.
The Commission will not normally make a final determination unless, it receives a request for a hearing.
I Comments should be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attn:
Docketing.and Service Branch.
By March 7, 1985, the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and who
, 'I wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for leave to intervene.
Request for a hearing and petitions for'eave to "intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's "Rules f
J of Practice. for Domestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2. If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above
- date, the Commission'or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Commission or by the Chairman nf the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the request and/ot petition and.the Secretary or the designated Atomic Sa ety and Licensing Board will issue.a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
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4 As required by 10 CFR 2.,714; a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity 'the interest of the petition'er in the proceeding,
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I and how that interest may be'ffected by the results: of thj pro'ceeding.
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petition should specificallg explain the reasons why. intedv'ention should be I
permitted with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the 'nature of.the petitioner's right -under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which II
, may be entered in the proceeding on'the petitioner 's interest.
The petition should also identify the specific aspects(s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene.
Ahy person who has filed a'petition for leave to intervene or who has been" admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements descr ibed above.
Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled'n the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity.
Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration.
A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satis<ies. these requirements with k
II respect to at least one contention will not be permitted. to participate as a party.
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- Those permitted to inter'vene become parties to the proceeding, subject I
to any.limitations in the ordei granting leave to intervene,'nd have the I
i opportunity to participate '.fully in the conduct of the hea'ring, including the opportunity to present 'evidence and.cross-examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Commission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration.
The final determination vill serve to decide when the hearing is held.
If the final determination is that the amendment request involves no
~ 'significant hazards consideration, the Commission may issue the amendment C'nd make it effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing.
Any hearing held would take place after, issuance of the amendment.
. If the final determination is that the amendment involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
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Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the expira-tion of the 30-day notice period.
However, should circ'umstances change during the notice period such that failure to act in a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of. the facility, the Commission'.
may issue the license amendm'ent before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.
The final -determination will consider all public and State comments received.
Should the'ommission take this action, it will publ'ish a.notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
The Commission expects that. the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
A request for a hearin or a etition for leave to intervene must be g
p filed with the. Secretary'of'he Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
7590-01 Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention:
Docketing.and Service Bpanch, or may be delivered to the Commissinn's. Public Document Room, 1717.H'Street, N.W.
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. Washington, D.C.; by the above date.
Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the, notice period, it is requested that the petitioner l
promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western J
Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Missouri (800) 342-6700).
The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to John A. Zwolinski:
petitioner's name and' telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555,'and to'Harry H. Voight, Esquire,
- LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, 1333 New Hampshire
- Avenue, N.W., Suite
- 1100, Washington, D.C.
20036, attorney for the l,icensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will'ot be entertained absent a determination by the Commission, the presiding officer or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request; that the petitioner has made a substantial showing of good cause.for the granting of. a late petition and/or request.
That determination will be based upon a balancing of, the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
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for amen'dment".which. is available for public inspection at the Commission's I
Public Document
- Room, 1717.
H Street, N.M.,'Mashington, D.C:.; and at the I
Rochester Public Library, 115 South Avenue, Rochester, H.Y.
14604.
Dated at Bethesda,. Maryland, this 31 day of January 1985.
FOR E NUCLEAR REG AT RY COMMISSION John
. Zwolinski, Chief Opera ing Reactors Branch 85 Division of Licensing
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